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Now the next question will interest some of you: "How long should you know a person before getting married?"

My answer would be, long enough to know the person thoroughly, and that is not a day, nor a week, nor a month. Some people we think we know at once, and know them thoroughly, but let us be cautious about marrying such a person at once. Our opinions of people change.

I have met people that attracted me powerfully at first, and yet later on the attraction has evanesced to the vanishing point.

So beware of marrying in haste. Almost certainly it means to repent at leisure. The marriage laws of every state ought to make it impossible to marry too quickly. In California it is necessary to wait three days for a marriage license. In Massachusetts five days are required. Other states have